Les Mikesell wrote: > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > >>>> In /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf. change >>>> tokeep=2 to tokeep=5. >>> Unless some one can tell us which service to restart the only way I >>> know of for this to take hold and actually work is to reboot the system. >> >> There is no service. This file is read by yum every time it is run. If >> you change it, the next time you run yum, it should pick up the new >> value. I routinely change this from 2 to 5 on all of my machines. > > Have you ever actually needed to go back to something earlier than the > kernel you were running when the update picked up the next one? Yes, I have. Sometimes, the support modules for the new kernel are net yet available, and if I'm testing the previously new kernel, and it fails for me after installing the newest one, I need to go back to the previous one which actually worked. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
